interstate

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That level of spending towers over the inflation-adjusted outlays for the U.S. railroad expansion of the 1850s, as well as the decadeslong construction of America’s interstate highway system initiated a century later.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

“Don’t try to walk to MetLife stadium!” became a popular post on social media by Americans afraid that Europeans didn’t understand the reality of the U.S. interstate highways.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2026

Must a transportation worker like Brock himself cross state borders or directly interact with a vehicle that crosses state lines to be “engaged in interstate commerce” and thus exempt from arbitration?

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

Basically these tractors are able to leave the yard, navigate from the yard to the interstate, run the interstate, go to the next facility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

At times they could see stretches of the interstate highway below them through the bare stands of secondgrowth timber.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy